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It is a useful thing when a political party reveals itself as utterly unsuited for national leadership. This may be the one redeeming feature of Monday's letter to the Iranian government signed by 47 (or, to put it another way, all but seven) Senate Republicans. The letter — which encourages Iran's leaders to dismiss the ongoing nuclear talks with the United States and five other nations — is as brazen, gratuitous and plainly stupid an act as any committed by the Senate in recent times, and that says a lot. It also may be illegal. The banalities begin with the greeting: "An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran." By custom, a serious...

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